I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl... What a pity!
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?
I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
Like myself, President Obama is the father of two daughters. He understands the obstacles that they face as women, but he also understands the emergency of the state of young black men in America.
Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.
I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
Danny Archer: Without me you're just another black man in Africa.
[after Wolcott's bird goes down] Garrison: We just lost the initiative.
Sanderson: So where did they find you? Grimes: Behind a desk. [Sanderson laughs] Grimes: No really.
[speaking about a Pakistani UN tank] Grimes: These things are fuckin' bullet magnets!
General Garrison: Danny, you understand me? No one gets left behind!
